"Vertigo" Then and Now

I found this link during my morning blogrun (which happes just after my morning comicrun)

Originally found in Jeffery Zeldman’s Daily Report, I give you “Vertigo” Then and Now: Before and after images of San Francisco locations used in Hitchcock’s 1958 film masterpiece.

Considering I live and work near San Fancisco, and I recognize a few of these ladnmarks, (I don’t spend nearly as much time in The City as I probably should.) I think it’s really neat comparing stills from the movie with photos of thier present-day equivalents.

Edit: Fixing Copy-n-Paste Error

Edited on May 22nd 2003, 18:32 by Hooloovoo

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I was just reading through the recent entries in the bash.org IRC quote database, when I cam across this little gem about the movie “The Usual Suspects” – it contains a spoiler about the movie, so I’ve taken the appropriate percautions.

[Spoilers]
#78874 +(29)- [X]

EchelonOverlord: Jeni’s gonna come watch Usual Suspects now.
Morwen K: ooh! has she seen it before?
EchelonOverlord: Nope.
Morwen K: coooool
EchelonOverlord: Oh yeah.
Morwen K: i’d invite myself along but i’m sure this is your together-time, so i won’t intrude 😉
Morwen K: plus i’d probably blurt out “it’s kevin spacey!!!” like halfway through
EchelonOverlord: What?! Kevin Spacey?!!
Morwen K: ..
Morwen K: fuck
[/Spoilers]

Jul 13th 2002, 08:28 GMT

I just got done watching Mulholland Drive. I’m not sure exactly what just happened. This is likely because I’ve had a long day — definatley not a movie to be watching when your brain already feels like clay. I’m going to have to watch it again, and see what I can dig up about the film online. Good thing we have the DVD for a few days.

Jun 24th 2002, 16:43 GMT

Went to see Minority Report yesterday.

I think I liked it, (even if there were a couple of BIG plot holes,) but I’ll have to go see it again before I know for sure. Dude sitting behind me kept trying to discuss what was going on with his wife. Thankfully, she wasn’t chatting back — but it was still quite distracting.

Oh yeah, and I remembered why I don’t usually get a large soda.

Dec 20th 2001, 18:26 GMT

I saw Fellowship of the Ring last night.

With the exception of completely leaving out one of my favorite characters in the books – which I can understand doing for time purposes, and the projectionist having some trouble at the beginning – which let to the movie being stopped and re-started and the entire audience getting free passes, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I’m still not sure I’m up for a full review, but I may work on one when I have some free time. In the mean time, read this:

I think this film was VERY well done, you should go see it. They changed a few details to get things moving faster – but this was an excellent adaptation of the story. I can hardly wait for “The Two Towers” and “Return of the King”

Dec 17th 2001, 02:53 GMT

A Pathetic Excuse for a Movie Review.

Since I want to find something “useful” to do here on G-Blog.net, I’ve decided to write a movie review.

A friend of mine and I went to go see “Not Another Teen Movie” yesterday. Why? I’m not sure. Probably because we were bored, and I didn’t particularly want to see “Vanilla Sky“.

In short, this movie is pretty awful – with a couple of great moments that almost make up for it. And no, I’m not talking about the brief nudity, you sick, cheeky monkey! 🙂

If you ever saw “Scary Movie“, this is the same idea. But instead of making fun of the Horror genre, we’re making fun of the Teen Movie genre. There are references to everything from “Cruel Intentions” , “Bring It On” , “American Pie” , and “She’s All That“; to “The Breakfast Club“, “Sixteen Candles” , and even “Better Off Dead” . That’s just a small sampling of the movies “Not Another Teen Move” makes reference too.

I’m not going to bore you with a plot outline, since there really isn’t one, but I don’t think you really need it to “enjoy” this movie.

Over all, it’s a pretty mindless flick, but it does point out some of the more absurd “plot” devices used in the typical teen movie in a humorous way, which is what the director was going for. There were some funny moments, some stupid moments, some disgusting moments, and a couple of great cameos.

If you’re a fan of cheesey 80’s “Brat Pack” movies, or even some of the more recent teen films; or if you are just bored one Saturday, and want to see something mindless and relatively funny, give “Not Another Teen Movie” a try.

-Hooloovoo
(Who wishes there were exchange students like Areola when he was in highschool.)

Did you see the movie?
Do you think this review sucks?
Do you think I’m an idiot savant?
Let me know, leave a comment.

Edited on Dec 17th 2001, 02:55 by Hooloovoo